M4N, the company which employs the JDevelopment team, manages a network that enables online merchants to reward website owners for placing their advertisements and referring customers. M4N tracks and registers the transactions of referred customers, and manages the network. In order to do this most effectively, we build our own web application. This means that we constantly have to innovate, developing new features, improving existing functionality and hardening the underlying architecture for an ever increasing amount of business.

In 2007 we were the 6th fastest growing Dutch company in the Deloitte Fast 50, measured by percentage of turnover increase over the last 5 years. We remain on this list throughout 2008 and 2009. M4N employs over 40 employees, who work together in an informal and dynamic organization. Our office is situated in Amsterdam, in the formal Parool tower, close by the Amstel station, and has a panoramic view of the city.

M4N is part of The Mbuyu Community B.V., founded in 1999. Our mission statement: “Making searching, finding and buying products on the Internet easier”. The ideas of transparency, quality and communication are always in the forefront of our minds and central to our philosophy. We not only uphold these ideas for our customers, but for our own employees as well.

Within M4N you are immediately given a lot of responsibility. There’s always something to be done and there’s a lot of communication between all departments: Sales, PR, Development, etc. Flexible work scheduling allows employees to work at times that fit with their own personal schedule and makes it possible for them to adjust the time or place their work is completed. Every month the full results of the company are disclosed in an internal monthly meeting, during which new commercial developments are briefly discussed as well.